TLS in Cyrillic, signed “N. Khrushchev,” one page, 8 x 11.25, June 9, 1949. Letter to officials at the Ukraine’s Central Factory Mine in Stalino. In part (translated): “I hereby congratulate the mine’s team of workers, engineers, and technicians on a great production triumph—sinking 40.5 meters of finished vertical shaft during the month of May this year, which appreciably exceeds the average shaft sinking rate achieved in the Donbass [Donets Basin]. The Soviet Government, the Bolshevik Party, and Comrade Stalin personally express ongoing concern for lightening the work of miners, as well as supplying mines with new high-performance machines and machinery. Based on the example of your mine, it is easy to see how remarkable results can be achieved if one knows how to use domestic mining equipment…I express confidence that the shaftmen of other Donbass mines under construction will follow your example, that the elongated holes, as well as the pneumatics loaders…at your disposal will be used, and that an increase in labor productivity, the hastening of new mine construction, and the early fulfillment of this plan of Stalin’s postwar five-year plan for the introduction of new production capabilities in the Donbass coal industry will be achieved.” In fine condition, with filing holes and small tears and paper loss to left edge. Accompanied by a full translation. This is a fascinating document as it concerns Stalin’s five-year plans, the collectivized economic planning model he had instituted beginning in 1928. Located in eastern Ukraine, Stalino was a key center of the nation’s coal mining and steel industries, a vital area for restoring manufacturing, which had been decimated during World War II; during this period of Stalin’s fourth plan, one-third of all capital expenditure was spent on Ukraine. After taking control of the USSR following Stalin’s death, Khrushchev would later change the name of Stalino to Donetsk during the second wave of de-Stalinization in November 1961. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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